Question

Name areas of high density population in Asia.

Answer 1

Hint: Population density refers to how many people are living in a per square kilometre area. These areas have easy availability of things of daily need, modern facilities, are the centre of availability of jobs and education or are industrial hubs.

Complete Answer:
There are many factors which determine this such as - the climate of that place, its relief, soil, and availability of water etc. Among the total continents of the world, Asia has the highest population density which is 150 persons per square kilometres.

The special administrative region of China known as Macau has the density of population of 20.8 thousand people living in per square kilometre area thus becoming the most densely populated area of Asia.
1. Shanghai: It is the most populous city in China and the largest city in the entire world. It has an average population density of 2,059 people per square kilometre, while this figure rises in urban areas to 3,854 people per square kilometre.
2. Istanbul is one of the largest cities in the world. In this city, hundreds of migrants migrate regularly in the search of jobs. The population of Istanbul has grown from 1 million to around 10 million people since the 1950s. Almost 200,000 new refugees, many of them from Turkey's villages, continue to come every year.
3. Mumbai: As the environmental status study has shown that more than 26,000 people live on each square kilometre of land in the region, Mumbai has continued to be among the top three cities having the highest population density in the world.
4. India’s Gangetic plains, Delhi and Malabar coast region is also densely populated.
5. China’s Hwang-Ho river valley and the capital of China, Beijing also has a very high population density.

Note:
- India's rank in terms of population is second in the world. It constitutes about 17.35 percent of the total population of the world.
- Population density of India according to the latest official data of the year 2020 is about 464 people per square kilometre.
- Demographic trap - this term refers to the combination of high fertility (birth rate) and decreasing mortality (death rates) in developing nations of the world and further results in a period of high population growth rate.